[Advanced Ash: Uh... Sorry, I didn't mean to, it's just that I really don't know what glowing cuisine does, does it make the food more delicious?]
[Kitchen God Ash: No, you've got it in the wrong order, only when the cuisine reaches perfect quality will you get glowing cuisine. Glowing cuisine itself is the most delicious. However, the chat group evaluates my fiercely proud ability as A-Level, I'm unsure whether to be angry or happy.]
Anger is natural because his world-class culinary skills can only rank as A-Level, but happiness naturally comes because if his cuisine is only A-Level, it means it hasn't reached its true limit!
The chat group contains the abilities of Ash from every parallel world, even the opportunities obtained, thus resulting in those abstract rewards, as well as revealing the abilities each Ash possesses.
Powerful abilities are rated as S-Class, similar to Power of Viridian and Aura Power. However, there's also Ash who, through his own efforts and talent, has ascended skills to S-Class, like Breeder Ash; if one were to acquire all his knowledge and nurturing skills, it would definitely be worth S-Class.
As for Kitchen God Ash's ability, it's solely cooking, and the dishes he makes come with various magical effects.
Healing, recovery, enhancing training efficiency, temporarily boosting a certain attribute's strength, and even allowing a Pokemon to temporarily possess a different attribute — all these are achieved through cuisine.
However, since nobody has ever extracted his ability, Kitchen God Ash didn't know what rank his ability holds in the chat group, but now he does.
Glowing cuisine is the strongest dish he can make, and if even this is only A-Level, then his overall ability surely isn't S-Class.
This news is undoubtedly disappointing, yet it also invigorates him, revealing that his culinary skills have not yet reached their peak, that he can continue to refine them, and cook even greater dishes!
Though he truly stands at the pinnacle of culinary arts in his world, he hasn't yet reached the apex of culinary pursuit. Being young, he can still advance further; if not for today's revelation of not having achieved the culinary peak, who knows how long he'd remain complacent.
[Advanced Ash: So Kitchen God, what's the actual function of this glowing cuisine?]
[Kitchen God Ash: Oh, I forgot to mention, overall it's about achieving the ultimate blend of ingredients, letting the effects of different ingredients fuse into new ones. For example, if you combine fruit that enhances a Pokemon's speed with one that enhances power to make Pokemon food, there's a chance to achieve a third effect with the original two effects retained and maximized.]
[Kitchen God Ash: Just try it out yourself to see the potential increase; it also varies by ingredients; better ingredients naturally yield better boosts for Pokemon.]
The so-called glowing cuisine occurs when the utilization of ingredients reaches an extreme level. Whether it's berries or other beneficial ingredients for Pokemon, superb cooking methods are needed to unleash their latent effects.
Some powerful breeders or chefs can unleash sixty percent of an ingredient's effects, which is already considered top-tier.
Kitchen God Ash's ability can capitalize on ninety to one hundred percent of an ingredient's effects, though he can't achieve one hundred percent utilization every time he cooks.
Yet this doesn't hinder him from already being at the world-class level, offering his insights. To advance his ability to S-Class, it seems he'd need to reach one hundred and twenty percent utilization of ingredients.
As for how to achieve that, it's going to take a long time of accumulation; anyway, he can't do it yet.
After Kitchen God Ash's explanation, Ash also understood the role of this A-Level ability; essentially, his cooking makes the food more delicious, and has a strong enhancement effect on both human and Pokemon bodies.
The rewards from this lottery are quite good, well worth three months of accumulated draws. Getting more chances in the future will definitely become harder, but according to the big shots in the group, theoretically, if he steadily improves himself, he should reach over a hundred draw opportunities.
He's done about thirty draws so far, which means at least seventy more to go. How to get those seventy draws remains unknown, but if the group leaders reveal how to obtain them, he could get them faster.
However, the big shots said that figuring it out yourself is more fun, and Ash agreed, so he didn't dwell too much on how to get more draws.
[Advanced Ash: If there's nothing else, I'll be off for now, big shots.]
[Champion Ash: Alright, go ahead, digest what you've gained today. I believe you'll make great strides in a short time, and I look forward to the day you walk the path of the Eight Great Masters.]